21 Days of Gratitude – A Challenge for the Whole Family

21 Days of Contagious Gratitude: For the Whole Family Challenge

November 1st- 21st

There are over 21 bloggers who have joined forces because we believe that gratitude can be contagious and we desire to spend this month being grateful with our families. Each day a different blogger will walk along side of you in this challenge and share their experience. Stop by and visit their website on the date listed below to read their Contagious Gratitude story or activity.

I hope you join me in this 21 Days of being thankful.

It’s so easy to complain, grumble or to not be content with our situation, our body, our home, our kids, our food, our job, our spouse, our parents, our school, our friends and life as we know it. In effort, to be less of that and be filled with joy, I want to challenge myself, my family and you to be more aware of the blessings we are surrounded with each day.

My hope is that you will find beauty and blessings in the mundane, in the beautiful, in the ugly as you: change diapers, wash dishes, sit in holiday traffic, stir the pot of soup, look into your spouses eyes, hold your child in your arms… We are constantly surrounded by small miracles let’s open our eyes and embrace them. May the Lord open the eyes of my heart so I can see them!

We will discover joy when we discover gratitude.

How to join in the fun! Nov 1st -21st

1. Let others know about our 21 Days of Gratitude Challenge for the Whole Family and use the hashtag #21DaysGratitude. Our hope is that it’s contagious and 1000′s of families join in so help us get the word out. In the midst of our busyness it’s easy to forget to pause and be thankful. Sometimes we are in the midst of difficult circumstances and we struggle with being thankful and that’s when we need thanksgiving to intervene.

2. Stop, reflect and engage in a moment of thankfulness each day this month, with your family. It can be big or small moments of gratitude.

“Hurry always empties the soul.” ~ Ann Voskamp

3. Share your moment on your blog with a photo, on facebook, twitter, pinterest or your preferred social network. If you’re doing this as a family let your kids snap a photo of something they are thankful for. It can be as simple as a taking a picture of a note written on a napkin that says “I am thankful I get to hold these little pudgy fingers”. You can journal it or do a service project. Make it simple or get as creative as you like.

4. Don’t worry if you are getting a late start or if you skipped a day. Just jump in and follow along.

Photo or Writing Prompts Printable: Feel free to come up with your own reflections of gratitude or if you need some prompts see below. (right click on image, then copy and paste into your document and print) Adjust the list below for your little ones as needed.

This is the schedule of the 30 fabulous bloggers participating in the 21 Days of Gratitude Challenge. Come back and let us know you’re participating either leave a comment or link up your post from your blog or a picture via FB in our 21 Days of CONTAGIOUS Gratitude!

This is confirmation for what I’m doing in my Sunday school class. I challenged them to create a gratitude journal for the month of November. Each day they have to write 5 things they are grateful for. It has to be something positive and they can only list it once. I’ve also decided to start doing some form of voluneeter project each month with my boys. I can’t wait to get started.

Thank you for this! I think I am going to make a tree with brown paper grocery bags. Each day, we will pick something we are thankful for and write it on a leaf to add to the tree. It will be a visual reminder to be thankful. Thank you for the prompt to keep me prayerfully thankful!

Hi Mari, I just grabbed your gratitude button and put it in my blog. It’s so true that in the mayhem of life we forget to feel and show gratitude for so many things. I will be concentrating on the little things in life that we forget to be thankful for….. 🙂

this is such a great idea, I am very excited to have found it and just put up my first post! There are so many things to be grateful for and just writing and thinking about it makes me feel better and better! thanks

I just found it today, too! I’m not going to do anything elaborate with it, that’s not my way, but I did just print out the 21 Days of Contagious Gratitude sheet and will pack it with me in my suitcase to the family Thanksgiving. I think it will help me keep a good perspective

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